Plocploc Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Hello everybody, I'll need your help after doing a big stupid mistake of my own. Here's the story: - I have the GA31M-ES2L which is one the most recommended MB for OSX - I followed the tutorials and successfully installed Snow Leopard, Chamelon, and other kexts/OSX updates and have been running the hackintosh really fine for almost a year now (never touched anything since, nor installed a risky update) - Yesterday I decided to install Mavericks onto a laptop. According to some guides found on google, I had to prepare a USB drive using the latest Chameleon, but (here came my big mistake) instead of selecting the USB drive to install it on, I left the destination drive as my Snow Leopard Install HDD. Since then, everytime I reboot, it would never pass the Apple logo screen and seems locked forever. What I did was to get the Darwin Boot CD I originally used when I first installed Snow Leopard. I booted on that CD, then selected my SL HDD, and it successfully booted again. As I didn't want to relay on the boot forever, I decided to fix my SL HDD by using the old and original Chameleon to "repatch" back to the old version. That's what I did, but now, it kernel panics each time I try to boot. The message is like "You must reboot the Mac by pressing the power button..." What I can I do? If I do a new install of SL, I guess I will loose everything right? (I don't want to loose anything) Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for my bad English. Edit: I forgot to say that I originally installed 10.6.3, then updated to 10.6.8 six months ago. And IIRC, one of the error message was "wrong kernel version" or something like that. I can take a photo if you wish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 As usual boot with -v flag and post back the screenshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plocploc Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 Hi, actually I removed the HDD and put it in an external USB case so I could use it on my friend's Mac. We finally found out that Chameleon put sleepenabler.kext back into the Extensions folder (while I removed it when updating to 10.6.8). I deleted the kext and now I got my install back and running fine, thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Glad you've solved the issue yourself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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